About Us
Empowering-Communities.org provides services and builds social action networks that help communities and vulnerable people.
As a not for profit social enterprise our aim is to facilitate positive social change by doing things differently. We are innovative, creative, pioneering and have the strength of character to make things happen.
Though we compete in the market place like other businesses we do not exist to serve the interests of shareholders and continually reinvest back into the organisation.
We have an ethos of continuous improvement and are always striving to provide the best possible service to our customers and communities.
Gary Pettengell, Founder of Empowering-Communities, has 20 years experience of crime reduction and community engagement work. He started one of the UKís most successful national, business crime reduction partnerships in 2001 and chairs the National Security Symposium for the UKís gaming and leisure industry.
He has worked on several local, national and international crime reduction and community engagement projects for which he has won several awards. One of these projects has been made the subject of a case study by the United Nations in New York. In April 2007 He was voted ìPerson of the Yearî in Lithuania for his work helping migrant communities and is the only foreign national ever to be awarded the Angel Guard Medal of Honour for policing excellence in Lithuania.
In August 2007 Pettengell introduced the UKís first and only national self exclusion program for problem gamblers and has developed the only independent, international database and self exclusion program to tackle problem gambling via the internet.
With the introduction of SIRCS and E-CINS, Empowering-Communities are changing partnership working and the way organisations and their partners communicate with one another by creating an environment where everyone knows what everyone else is doing. This enables help and support to quickly and effectively be ëwrapped around’ victims, offenders and vulnerable persons and puts valuable safeguards in place.
For more information about Empowering-Communities products and services visit www.empowering-communities.org
To contact Gary please call +44(0)1502 576888 or email gary@empowering-communities.org
